Hello! My favorite Ethiopian restaurant * plays a unique style of music that I have never heard before.
It feels like jazz, but it’s completely unlike any Western jazz. Typically, it will feature keyboards, drums, saxophone and possibly bass or keyboard bass. The rhythm section will groove on a very hypnotic and compelling snatch of melody for a long, long time, with what sounds like electric organ and then saxophone taking turns doing long trippy leads.
It’s utterly ravishing, but I can’t seem to identify it so I can listen and buy at home. I asked the restaurant’s excellent proprietor once to please write down the name of the artist he was playing at the time, but it produced no good results on YouTube. Then I lost the name.
Does anyone know what I’m talking about? What is this style called? Who are its principal perpetrators?
Thanks!
- (Bole, in Oakland)